Shift

Its place in Silo

Shift is book 2 in the Silo series. It follows Wool. It is followed by Dust. See the full Silo reading order.

Thousands of people live in a massive underground silo, generations removed from whatever destroyed the world above. The air outside is toxic, everyone knows it, and the one rule no one breaks is that you never ask to go outside — because the silo always grants that wish, and no one who leaves the airlock ever comes back. When the sheriff himself asks to go out, his death sets off a chain of events that pulls a reluctant new sheriff, an engineer, and a shadow government of silo administrators into a fight over…